See who owned the PV World Record and for how long!

[Bruce Caldwell]

Men, pole vault WORLD RECORD PROGRESSION

4.02 Marc Wright USA 12/06/08 Cambridge

4.09 Frank Foss USA 20/08/20 Antwerp

4.12 Charles Hoff NOR 22/07/22 Copenhagen

4.21 Charles Hoff NOR 23/07/22 Copenhagen

4.23 Charles Hoff NOR 25/08/13 Oslo

4.25 Charles Hoff NOR 25/09/27 Turku

4.27 Sabin Carr USA 27/05/27 Philadelphia

4.30 Lee Barnes USA 28/04/28 Fresno

4.37 William Graber USA 32/07/16 Palo Alto

4.39 Keith Brown USA 35/06/01 Boston

4.43 George Varoff USA 36/07/04 Princeton

4.54 William Sefton USA 37/05/29 Los Angeles

4.54 Earl Meadows USA 37/05/29 Los Angeles

4.60 Cornelius Warmerdam USA 40/06/29 Fresno

4.72 Cornelius Warmerdam USA 41/06/26 Compton

4.77 Cornelius Warmerdam USA 42/05/23 Modesto

4.78 Robert Gutowski USA 57/04/27 Palo Alto

4.80 Donald Bragg USA 60/07/02 Palo Alto

4.83 George Davies USA 61/05/20 Boulder

4.89 John Uelses USA 62/03/31 Santa Barbara

4.93 David Tork USA 62/04/28 Walnut

4.94 Pentti Nikula FIN 62/06/22 Kauhava

5.00 Brian Sternberg USA 63/04/27 Philadelphia

5.08 Brian Sternberg USA 63/06/07 Compton

5.13 John Pennel USA 63/08/05 London

5.20 John Pennel USA 63/08/24 Coral Gables

5.23 Fred Hansen USA 64/06/13 San Diego

5.28 Fred Hansen USA 64/07/25 Los Angeles

5.32 Bob Seagren USA 66/05/14 Fresno

5.34 John Pennel USA 66/07/23 Los Angeles

5.36 Bob Seagren USA 67/06/10 San Diego

5.38 Paul Wilson USA 67/06/23 Bakersfield

5.41 Bob Seagren USA 68/09/12 Lake Tahoe

5.44 John Pennel USA 69/06/21 Sacramento

5.45 Wolfgang Nordwig DDR 70/06/17 Berlin

5.46 Wolfgang Nordwig DDR 70/09/03 Turin

5.49 Kristos Papanikolau GRE 70/10/24 Athens

5.51 Kjell Isaksson SWE 72/04/08 Austin

5.54 Kjell Isaksson SWE 72/04/15 Los Angeles

5.55 Kjell Isaksson SWE 72/06/12 Helsingborg

5.63 Bob Seagren USA 72/07/02 Eugene

5.65 Dave Roberts USA 75/03/28 Gainesville

5.67 Earl Bell USA 76/05/29 Wichita

5.70 Dave Roberts USA 76/06/22 Eugene

5.72 Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz POL 80/05/11 Milan

5.75 Thierry Vigneron FRA 80/06/01 Colombes

5.75 Thierry Vigneron FRA 80/06/29 Lille

5.77 Philippe Houvion FRA 80/07/17 Paris

5.78 Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz POL 80/07/30 Moscow

5.80 Thierry Vigneron FRA 81/06/20 Macon

5.81 Vladimir Polyakov SOV 81/06/26 Tbilisi

5.84 Konstantin Volkov SOV 81/09/03 Irkutsk unofficial

5.82 Pierre Quinon FRA 83/08/28 Keulen

5.83 Thierry Vigneron FRA 83/09/01 Rome

5.85 Sergey Bubka SOV 84/05/26 Bratislava

5.88 Sergey Bubka SOV 84/06/02 Paris

5.90 Sergey Bubka SOV 84/07/13 London

5.91 Thierry Vigneron FRA 84/08/31 Rome

5.94 Sergey Bubka SOV 84/08/31 Rome

6.00 Sergey Bubka SOV 85/07/13 Paris

6.01 Sergey Bubka SOV 86/07/08 Moscow

6.03 Sergey Bubka SOV 87/06/23 Prague

6.05 Sergey Bubka SOV 88/06/09 Bratislava

6.06 Sergey Bubka SOV 88/07/10 Nice

6.07 Sergey Bubka SOV 91/05/06 Shizuoka

6.08 Sergey Bubka SOV 91/06/09 Moscow

6.09 Sergey Bubka SOV 91/07/08 Formia

6.10 Sergey Bubka SOV 91/08/05 Malmö

6.11 Sergey Bubka SOV 92/06/13 Dijon

6.12 Sergey Bubka SOV 92/08/30 Padova

6.13 Sergey Bubka SOV 92/09/19 Tokyo

6.14 Sergey Bubka SOV 94/07/31 Sestriere